Africa

In the Far North, region with the highest rate of child malnutrition, volunteers from the PIME Lay Association are developing a project to cultivate, process and sell moringa powder, highly marketed for phytosanitary and nutritional purposes

The fertility indicator has dropped from 7,6 in 2012 to 6,2 in 2021; data is based on the National Fertility and Morbidity Survey of Under-Five Children and this decrease is considered an important step forward for population and development policies

A team of doctors formed by Tunisian and Italian specialists has successfully performed the first cardiac catheterisation operations in the paediatric room created in the children's cardiac surgery department of the La Rabta hospital in Tunis

The 25th session of the Conference on Archaeology and Cultural Heritage in the Arab World took place in Nouakchott; held once every two years, it discusses the latest developments about conservation and protection of antiquities and cultural heritage

Ten Egyptian blue helmets were injured this week in Bangui when President Faustin-Archange Touadéra's guards fired on their bus; the UN called the attack "deliberate and unspeakable"

Timane Erdimi, the leader of the Union of Resistance Forces (UFR), an alliance of several rebel groups, said he was willing to participate in the pre-dialogue and the inclusive national dialogue under certain conditions

The country is regarded as the lungs of Africa as its forests store more carbon per hectare than the Amazon, help regulate temperatures and generate rain for millions of people as far as the arid Sahel and Ethiopian highlands

The country's first solar array was inaugurated this week, with the help of renewable energy developers Gigawatt Global; the project has increased the country's generating capacity by 10%

The country delivered its first iron ore exports to China; Botswana is heavily dependent on precious stones, with diamonds accounting for more than 70% of foreign exchange earnings

The young Senegalese writer Mohamed Mbougar Sarr has won the Goncourt Prize, the most important in French literature, given since 1896 to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year"

The president of the Bissau Municipality announced the intention to use the green space of the district for cultural events, in particular to broadcast the matches of the national football team "the Djurtus" at the African Cup of Nations

The government has launched the country's structural vulnerability assessment, a strategy that is expected to improve national resilience and capacity to respond to structural vulnerabilities related to stability, security and development